Comment by klondike_klive
3 days ago
My mother lost her sense of smell after surgery for nasal polyps in her teens. She was mortally afraid of fire breaking out in the night and not being able to smell it.
3 days ago
My mother lost her sense of smell after surgery for nasal polyps in her teens. She was mortally afraid of fire breaking out in the night and not being able to smell it.
Maybe not reassuring at all: but we can't smell a lot while we are asleep. A bad smell won't wake us up. That's why fire alarms exist, noise (or bright light) does wake us up.
> A bad smell won't wake us up.
I've woken up at night to investigate weird smells. Maybe the smell didn't wake me up, or maybe it didn't wake me up quickly, but I smelled the smell as I was waking up and then did the find the vaguely burning smell game. Last one I remember was a neighbor's bonfire left going when they went to sleep inside.
I have also been woken at night by the smell of smoke from a wildfire. Could be only possible during the lighter phases of sleep I suppose